Tales from the Underworld
Selected Shorter Fiction
$31.49
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2014
Summary
Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin.
In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes.
Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engagin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141392851 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141392851 |
| Author: | Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann, Jenny Williams |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 237g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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A powerful chronicler of human weakness shot through with hope
A powerful chronicler of human weakness shot through with hope * Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1893 in Greifswald as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, he took his pen name from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. His most famous works include the novels Little Man, What Now? and The Drinker. Fallada died from an overdose of morphine on 5 February 1947 in Berlin.
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